With their first child on the way, Sally and Gordon are looking for their forever home, and they think they've found it in 44 North Drive. It needs some work, sure. Walls are crumbling, carpets are rotten, and the plumbing is leaky. But it's the large overgrown garden that excites them most. Though there is that weird sign on the gate: 'Beware of the garden'.When Gordon decides to start work out there, he takes his first step from patio to lawn...and everything changes. He discover...

In the 1960s and 1970s, New Worlds magazine, edited by Michael Moorcock, became famous for its avant garde approach to SF, energising the genre's New Wave with exciting innovations in style, content, and presentation. Here J G Ballard and Brian Aldiss shared pages with Samuel R Delany and Norman Spinrad, Pamela Zoline with M John Harrison, Charles Platt with Harlan Ellison. Hilary Bailey with Thomas M. Disch.Now PS Publishing, with the enthusiastic endorsement and participation of ...

"Crowther's collection opens with a magnificent homage to Ray Bradbury, 'Some Burial Place, vast and Dry' (the title is one of several references to Whitman), in which the last survivor of a lost colony remembers his home and is visited by it. Despite that tough first act, the quality of what follows remains consistent. These lovely and thoughtful stories are speculative fiction at pretty much its best, conjuring self-contained worlds that for all the stories' brevity, teem with life."...

Fifteen original stories about our fear of and fascination with artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence has captured the imaginations of writers, readers, and scientists alike, from Karl Capek?s R.U.R. to Isaac Asimov?s Three Laws of Robotics, from Robby the Robot to The Terminator and The Bicentennial Man, and?of course?Arthur C. Clarke?s Hal 9000.Now some of the most innovative thinkers in science fiction offer a...

An anthology of science fiction short stories by some of today's top authors to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet. Filled to the brim with provocative tales of worlds where humans were never meant to go.

An original anthology celebrating Rod Serling's landmark television series featuring stories by Whitley Strieber, R. L. Stine, Laura Lippman, and others.When it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from much of the censors' strict oversight because of the show's classification as "science fiction," the 156 filmed episodes explored powerful and moving human themes—love, hate, pride, jealousy, terror—i...

First, the flash. A glare of light, just before dawn, followed by utter darkness. A vast blanketing nothingness that covered the whole Earth.Then, the disappearances. Friends and strangers alike, swallowed by the darkness… and then returned, altered, changed.For the people of Jesman's Bend, it feels like the end of the world. But this is only the very start.File Under: Science Fiction [Zombie Apocalypse | Bodysnatchers | They Return ]e-book ...

Gerald John Makinson, Inspector of the North Yorkshire police admits defeat and calls Holmes to Harrogate immediately. Holmes is asked to investigate a series of only loosely connected to one another. The four victims live and work in the local area, and each has been brutally murdered. Three of the bodies are found with their hearts missing, and the limbs of the fourth victim have been severed.

First, the flash. A glare of light, just before dawn, followed by utter darkness. A vast blanketing nothingness that covers the whole Earth.Then, the disappearances begin. Friends and strangers alike, swallowed by the darkness.… A lucky few are returned, but they are altered, changed.For the people of Jesman’s Bend, it feels like the end of the world. But this is only the very start.“To be read and shared and loved.” —Joe Hill“As intensely menacing and grues...

"Embodies the original series' unique vision of challenging its audience's assumptions about reality without sacrificing high-quality entertainment." — BooklistWhen it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from the censors' strict oversight due to the show's classification as science fiction, the 156 episodes explored classic, powerful, and moving human themes—love, hate, pri...

"Exciting, exhilaring, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized." -- M. R. CareyThe Oversight of London has been sworn for millennia to prevent the natural and the supernatural worlds from preying on each other.Now, at its lowest ebb, with its headquarters destroyed and its last members scattered far and wide, this secret society will battle for survival and face the har...

A short story from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant.Every week five friends get together to play a game — a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before.More from Mira Grant:NewsfleshFeedDeadline...